John Huss and the Hussite Wars - James Aitken Wylie

days, but they knew that the appointed years of
darkness must be fulfilled. They remembered the
words first uttered by Huss, and repeated by
Jerome, that a century must revolve before the day
should break. These were to the Taborites what the
words of Joseph were to the tribes in the House of
Bondage: "I die, and God will surely visit you, and
bring you out." The prediction kept alive their
hopes in the night of their persecution, and in the
darkest hour their eyes were still turned towards
the horizon like men who watch for the morning.
Year passed after year. The end of the century
arrived: it found 200 churches of the "United
Brethren" in Bohemia and Moravia. So goodly was
the remnant which, escaping the destructive fury of
fire and sword, was permitted to see the dawning
of that day which Huss had foretold.
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